“Mr. Remulla should be reminded that calls for the resignation of Marcos, in light of the allegations of corruption in government, are covered by the guarantees and protections afforded by the Constitution regarding free expression, the right to peaceful assembly, and redress of grievances,” Cortez said.
“Most importantly, the probe must now include President Marcos Jr. himself. If his Executive Secretary is deeply involved in corruption, how can the President claim ignorance?” Makabayan asked.
Aside from the resignation of Marcos and Duterte, BAYAN called for the creation of a national transition council that will temporarily govern the country as a democratic civilian authority.
“Like all the lower rung bureaucrat capitalists, Zaldy Co could only have carried out his large-scale plunder of the people’s money since 2016, with the direct authorization from the top of Malacañang–Duterte then, Marcos now,” Valbuena said.
The decade-and-a-half trial on the massacre of the country’s most famed botanist and his colleagues 15 years ago today is due for promulgation, his family announced.
The Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainee Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto (SELDA) revealed that two suspicious persons, one of them a woman, visited de Vera ostensibly to talk to her about her “insurance.”
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) said it has been further confirmed that Marcos Jr. is the single person mainly responsible for the corruption-infested national budgets.
CARMMA said Enrile oversaw at least 3,257 documented extrajudicial killings, 35,000 cases of torture, 737 enforced disappearances, and 70,000 detentions, with 2,520 of those killed subjected to torture and mutilation as key implementer of the dictatorship.
“Kung may hahabulin, dapat unahin ang mga mastermind. Manalamin naman kayo. Hanggang ngayon, feeling inosente at spared pa rin sa imbestigasyon ang pangulo?” Kabataan Rep. Renee Co said.
The Coalition said their HBs 209 and 4784 are true anti-political dynasty measures with clear and uncompromising provisions which President Marcos Jr., himself a dynast, must also certify as urgent.
